McLeod Diary

Transcript

[left]

Sept

17 we had a corps Review & I was then sertin we would leave in a few days & we were ready on Sunday & Sunday night about 11 oclock we left & marched all night & on the 19 we marched all day & till night we struck the West Point R.R. near a station called Telmetta & we lay down & went to sleep & about midnight we had to get up & move

[right]

Sept

back a few hundred yards & went to sleep again & on the 20 we went to bilding breast workes & worked all day & till midnight & quit & on the 21 we worked again until 11 or 12 oclock we got orders to quit & we moved on our right a half mile & went to work again & it a raining & we worked until we got the breast workes done & then we cleaned up our ground nice

Florida Memory is funded under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Florida’s LSTA program is administered by the Department of State's Division of Library and Information Services.